From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 21 00:31:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3401065678 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:31:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f17.google.com (mail-gx0-f17.google.com [209.85.217.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB2E8FC14 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:31:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by gxk10 with SMTP id 10so414694gxk.19 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:31:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=+9EXsns7OqhV67y46iqiLBA3bZAuzYRykr8Ok2AHxOs=; b=ZHXwuNLtgmcJQqoXRGJinHKa1g2DQ3vzePlEPKMi6fW8I+bxBqwVkOsYBZ4/AE7mEq PleBzCWoJYUKOR9AJvEHphrcFMz1/qG1lz4nbkRB5kQkjflGbnrMUoPT4sG4xKneMZZ3 eu88bx8kElnu9Z/WUNcdGOpzrA+jrZh3XqiP0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=S1VpLRefMpgv4PrFnMj7nwFj940SePiAgZnDiq6qVNQIbpjhQ6aZNx5ziOB5jea2X8 aC22lsCjZnDF/6N47njmxVfepHEaWHyEfTVsV4f1qtIMz8vfrs2xbYdXXe+0yxiRCUGL /Zb8a68dDeMRIEYOR317BBB3Bqb+cNjzgEKMk= Received: by 10.151.114.6 with SMTP id r6mr1056705ybm.84.1219278701602; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.144.6 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:31:41 -0400 From: "Aryeh Friedman" To: Polytropon In-Reply-To: <20080820202717.0b5ae676.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080820202717.0b5ae676.freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List , Alejandro Pulver Subject: Re: using sys/fusefs-ntfs as the home dir X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:31:42 -0000 > The solution would be very simple, but because you're insisting > on having the "D:" partition formatted as NTFS, a problem occurs: > As far as I know, FreeBSD's NTFS support is okay for reading, but > not for writing. (I'm not 100% sure because I don't have any > "Windows" stuff around to check.) Actual sysutils/fusefs-ntfs (or ntfsprogs with less stable support) allows you to read and write.... I am the "unofficial" (I am not sure if Ale has put my name on the maintainer line of the make file with his or not) fusefs-ntfs.... the only issue it has on the fb side is in some cases (happens to me but Ale can't seem to reproduce so we are at a lost of how to fix it) is any attempt to mount it from anywhere in /etc/rc or with non-delayed option in fstab will fail (non-fatally and repeating the attempt after your in "full" multiuser mode works just fine)... I was asking about how to structure the dir's and from what you described I don't think it solves the problem completely because the "Desktop" dir/folder has two completely different means under both OS's and besides many symlinks (most not documented anywhere) are likelly needed.... so the purpose of the question was attempting to automate this and/or minimize the number of symlinks (because to windows the will not translate to shortcuts if I understand the guts